Handle for drawers



(No Model.)

A. H. JONES.

HANDLE FOR DRAW-BBS.

No. 339,894. Patented Apr. 13, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUSTUS H. JONES, or MERIDEN, coNNEo'ricU' HANDLE FOR DRAWERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,894, dated April 13,1886.

Application filed February 19, 1886. Serial No. 192,511. (No model.)

To (l/ZZ whom it may concern:

Beitknown thatl, AUGUSTUS H. JONES, of Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Drawer-Pulls; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a front View of the drawer-pull, showing vertical section of the socket B; Fig. 2, an end view showing side of one socket. Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate the construction of the trunnion; Fig. 5, a modification of the socket.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of drawer-pulls in which the handle is of U shape, the upper end of its two arms each hung in a socket, so that the handle in its normal condition may hang vertical, but so that in use it may be raised into a horizontal plane, turning in the said sockets for such movement. In the more general construction the handle hangs free to swing in its sockets, and in moving the drawer without taking hold of the handle the handle will naturally swing to a greater or less extent, and in such swinging strikes the front of the drawer so as to mar its surface.

Various stops have been provided to prevent the contactofthehandle with the drawer that is to say, so that it shall turn down only into substantially a vertical plane, and be stopped from nearer approach to the drawerfront. It is to the construction of such a stop that my invention particularly relates; and it consists in constructing the two legs of the U each with a trunnion turned at right angles therefrom, the said trunnion constructed with a longitudinal radially-projecting rib, and the socket constructed with a corresponding shoulder within it, against which the said rib will strike when the handle is in its vertical position, and by which the handle will be prevented from striking the drawer front, as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents one socket, and B the other socket, between which the handle 0 is hung. The handle is of U shape, its legs extending upward, and turned one to the right and the other to the left, to form trunnions D in axial line with each other upon each leg, which trunnions rest in corresponding openings in the sockets, as pivots upon which the handle may swing. The trunnions are first constructed of cylindrical shape, as indicated at a, Fig. 3, and of a diameter somewhat larger than the diameter required for the complete trunnion, while in this cylindrical shape the surface of the trunnion may be readily finished. 'The trunnion is struck in dies prepared for the purpose to form a rib, I), longitudinally on the surface, projecting radially therefrom, as seen in Fig. 2. Thedies are shown in Fig. 3, E representing one part, and F the other part, the two parts having semicircular cavities, the two together corresponding to the cylindrical portion of the finished trunnion, and each constructed with a cavity, d, corresponding to the rib which is to be produced on the trunnion. The cylindrical trunnion is placed between thedies, as seen in Fig. 3, and the dies then brought together, as seen in Fig. 4, compress the cylindrical trunnion and swage a portion of it into the cavities d d to form the rib b, as seen in Fig. 4. By this method of forming the rib the finished surface of the trunnion is preserved, so that as it comes from the dies it is substantially complete, and the trunnion is very much. strengthened by the consolidation of the metal produced in the swaging operation. The sockets, one or both, are constructed with an opening, into which the trunnion will readily enter and rest, and is also constructed with a shoulder, c, in such relation to the rib on the trunnion that when the handle hangs in a vertical position, as seen in Fig. 2, the rib will bear against the shoulder e, to prevent the nearer approach of the handleto the drawer-front. This shoulder may be formed, as seen in Fig. 2, by a gradually-deepening recess from the opening in the trunnion, or it may be constructed, as seen in Fig. 5,with a recess of like depth throughout, and so as to form a second shoulder,f, above, against which the rib will strike when the handle is raised, to prevent its being thrown over against the drawer-front. Asin Fig. 2, the gradually-deepening recess serves the same purpose, as the rib will come to a bearing upon the inside of the socket as it ap proaches its opposition. As represented, the

two sockets are connected by a base-plate, G;

into a common longitudinal or axial line to 15 form trunnions, the said trunnions of cylindrical shape and constructed with a radiallyprojecting rib from the said cylindrical surface, combined with corresponding sockets adapted to receive the saidcylindrical portion, f and constructed with a recess to form a shoulder within the socket, against which'the said rib may rest, substantially as described.

AUGUSTUS H. JONES.

Witnesses: E. A. MERRIMAN, GEO. J. TERRELL. 

